22
2 Chronicles xiii. 5.
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Numbers xviii. 19.
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Ezekiel xvi. 4.
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Job v. 6.
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St. Mark ix. 50.
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28
Huxley’s “Physiography.”
29
Sir Robert Christison’s “Treatise on Poisons.”
30
Sea-water contains 2·5 per cent. of the chloride of sodium; some say 4 per cent.; according to others, 5·7.
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It is well worth remembering that the Thames carries away from its basin above Kingston 548,230 tons of saline matter annually.